BHOPAL: Former chief minister and PCC chief Kamal Nath on Monday said that power crisis in Madhya Pradesh is deepening with rural areas and agriculture sector being the worst-hit by unscheduled cuts of stretching several hours daily.
Taking to Twitter, Nath said that shortage of coal has affected the generation in thermal power stations in the state and some of them are on the brink of closure. Despite an increasing gap between demand and supply of power, the state government is not addressing the issue, he said.
During the Congress regime, power crisis was never allowed to crop up in the state and people were also provided cheap electricity. On the other hand, people are today plagued by the power crisis and highly inflated electricity bills.
The veteran Congress leader threatened a state-wide agitation if the prevailing power crisis is not tackled and inflated electricity bills are not checked.
Later, state Congress media vice-president Bhupendra Gupta in a press statement claimed that unscheduled power cuts amounting to 1300 MW or more are in effect in the state and 9 out of 16 power generation units of MPEB are defunct. He said that power generation units in the public sector are being shut and power is being purchased from private companies at costly rates.
Gupta, while referring to figures of the power discoms, said that on Sunday, there were unscheduled power cuts amounting to 1363 MW and on Saturday it was even more-1708 MW.
